Half installed RPM won't uninstall
Linux newbie here. Just installed Fedora C2 w/ no problem. I d/led the drivers for my video card (On-board Intel 845) and tried to install while I was in XWindows. This didn't go so well. I installed the rpm w/ "rpm -Uvh <filename>" which returned that I must install the drivers outside of Xwindows and that I will need to run rpm -e to uninstall. No prob. Well, maybe. The intel drivers do not show up in my rpm list (rpm -qa) and when I go to install it again, it tell me that it must be uninstalled first.
Where could Fedora be hanging onto the information that this rpm may be installed? I tried all sorts of rpm -e commands, to no avail. On a similar note: how can I stop my machine from loading xwindows? I have to install the drivers from a regular shell, but can't stop KDE or GNOME from loading. Thanks, Dan |
You can exit Xwindow just by loging out of kde. Also, you can set your default environment to level 3 (full multiuser with network), instead of level 5 (with X).
Regarding rpm, try to rebuild the db. rpm -rebuilddb (I guess. Check it with man rpm) |
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# Default runlevel. (Do not set to 0 or 6) id:5:initdefault: edit the line to read id:3:initdefault: and after next reboot the computer will start at a command line interface (CLI). HTH, mark I just noticed the Quote:
After you get the driver installed you will need to re-edit the inittab file back to id:5:initdefault: to get a graphical login on boot., if you are OK with any of the CLI text editors it will be easy but if not the best way to go might be a to use the graphical login first to start a session other that Gnome when you log in. IIRC when i used FC1 there was an option at login to choose another "session" and one of those was a CLI, sorry for the waffle mark |
Thanks for the tips. I have tried the rpm -rebuilddb route, to no avail.
I'll try all of this outside of xwindows, now that I know how to get out. Dan |
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